Every once in a while (like every couple of years) I go check out my Belief-O-Matic scores. The latest? Here it is.
(You can check your own by visiting the Belief-O-Matic page.)
At 11:58pm last night I received the results from my midterm in the history of Christian thought. I’m pleased to report that the results were good!
I’m currently working on the template for the site, revising it after the latest upgrade that knocked out much of the styling for the blog. It may be messy for a while. My apologies…
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Well, the day has come and we’re finally here. Mr. Kiso and I have made the transition to Chicago!
Home Sweet Home
Two days, over 18 hours of travel, four hours to move it all in… and countless hours so far of unpacking, fixing up, and exploring (all in five days!)…
City neighborhood, local shops, a mix of interesting people. We’ve got a lot to learn and I’m pretty excited about it all.
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Taking advantage of some of the down time before I start my PhD program next month at The University of Chicago Divinity School, I’ve started setting up a new professional website.
The blog name, fides quarens intellectum, is the Latin for St. Anselm of Canterbury’s “faith seeking reason.”
I hope to keep this personal site running, but want to have a place to separate out my work in the program.
Take a look… Register… And comment!
One of my guilty pleasures in life is South Park. I don’t watch it all that often because I overload on it easily. But Eric Cartman appeals to my inner kid. While visiting a friend’s blog I came across this remix of Lady Gaga’s Poker Face. Hysterical…
Caution: Contains typical South Park language. You’ve been warned.
Enjoy!
Yesterday I received a note from the University of Chicago Divinity School with news of my admission to the PhD program in theology! The news is still a little hard to take in. After four months of waiting, the opportunity that I've been hoping for has finally come to be!
I'll have more to say about this in the coming days, but for now I wanted to share a Wordle made from my candidate statement. I especially love the fact that the word "bears" shows up in dark blue in the middle at the very bottom. :-p
Enjoy!
After six years of Battlestar Galactica, it's hard to adjust to a different show with a whole new look and feel. But after the pilot and just two episodes, Caprica is starting to turn into something interesting in its own right.
After a passing comment in last week's episode that was easy to miss, this week revealed one of the characters as both married and gay. What makes this different from most American TV with married gay characters is that he's married to another man…
[SPOILER ALERT – Don't go any further if you don't want to know who it is…]
I love drag queens. My hat is off to any man who has what it takes to tuck, pluck, and don those dresses.
Gender bender films are fun, but nothing brings me sheer joy and kid giggles like a drag queen who owns the stage with a larger-than-life presence.
I was an undergrad at UK the first time I went to a drag show. Nothing in my life had prepared me for walking into a bar full of sequined gowns, high hair, and even a performer with flaming torches and a boa constrictor...
In a previous entry, we ended on the question of whether a denomination that includes many Protestant streams that see baptism as either a sign of incorporation into a covenant community or as sign of previous regeneration can honestly claim baptism is a sacrament within its bylaws.
The gulf between views of baptism as imparting a gift from God (sacramental) and outward sign of covenant community (Zwingli, Congregationalist) or a sign pointing to an inward act of faith that has already transpired (Baptist, Anabaptist, Pentecostal/Charismatic) becomes even broader when we begin to discuss the ontological meaning of baptism.